I think that in itself, though - if you'll pardon my strange way of looking at what is, to you, a disadvantage - is something that makes what you have to say, right now, worthwhile. Because not everybody who's feeling out this path for themselves right now has been in the community for five, ten, or twenty years. Not everybody is at 301 level, talking about the concepts based on the concepts based on the interpretations of the nuances of the concepts. Some of them will be where you are, or before where you are, and will want to read things from your perspective.
I think worrying that it's "too late", that you could have and should have got into this earlier, is counterproductive. Say what you do have to say; it'll find its audience. And grow from there.
It sounds like your story is a unique one. I've seen plenty of otherkin who've been around for a decade or so, plenty of them who are just plain new to this, and a couple of them who believed once and faded into cynicism over time. I've never seen the story from the other side - someone who knew the concept was out there for years, but is only just patching things together due to prior cynicism.
And it interests me because in some ways, it mirrors my story: I'm someone who knew about the concept for years, but - not due to cynicism, but due to my lack of recognition that I wasn't going to have that definitive, "Eureka!" moment upon finding my identity, and that I just had to trust in what felt relevant without expecting a blinding flash of revelation - I've only explored it in myself in bits and pieces, and never been able to claim it as definitively as some.
But anyway, again, I don't think you need an enduring story of the past. I think what you have in this moment sounds like a great story: the stories of those who have fought their way out from under cynicism and realised there's something better on the other side are rarely told, and that alone is worth hearing in more detail, from my POV. I'm curious about what, specifically, you understand now that you didn't before, and how your prior viewpoint clouded you from understanding it. I think those things would be useful to people who are sitll clouded, and they would be interesting to me.
Thank you for the links, also! I will certainly browse through those.
Don't worry about rapid responses. Being welcome is more than enough!
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I think that in itself, though - if you'll pardon my strange way of looking at what is, to you, a disadvantage - is something that makes what you have to say, right now, worthwhile. Because not everybody who's feeling out this path for themselves right now has been in the community for five, ten, or twenty years. Not everybody is at 301 level, talking about the concepts based on the concepts based on the interpretations of the nuances of the concepts. Some of them will be where you are, or before where you are, and will want to read things from your perspective.
I think worrying that it's "too late", that you could have and should have got into this earlier, is counterproductive. Say what you do have to say; it'll find its audience. And grow from there.
It sounds like your story is a unique one. I've seen plenty of otherkin who've been around for a decade or so, plenty of them who are just plain new to this, and a couple of them who believed once and faded into cynicism over time. I've never seen the story from the other side - someone who knew the concept was out there for years, but is only just patching things together due to prior cynicism.
And it interests me because in some ways, it mirrors my story: I'm someone who knew about the concept for years, but - not due to cynicism, but due to my lack of recognition that I wasn't going to have that definitive, "Eureka!" moment upon finding my identity, and that I just had to trust in what felt relevant without expecting a blinding flash of revelation - I've only explored it in myself in bits and pieces, and never been able to claim it as definitively as some.
But anyway, again, I don't think you need an enduring story of the past. I think what you have in this moment sounds like a great story: the stories of those who have fought their way out from under cynicism and realised there's something better on the other side are rarely told, and that alone is worth hearing in more detail, from my POV. I'm curious about what, specifically, you understand now that you didn't before, and how your prior viewpoint clouded you from understanding it. I think those things would be useful to people who are sitll clouded, and they would be interesting to me.
Thank you for the links, also! I will certainly browse through those.
Don't worry about rapid responses. Being welcome is more than enough!